melancholia

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But he added, acidly: “there was little about melancholia that he didn’t know; there was little else that he did.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

And people looking for a dose of introspective melancholia at the end of the festival will have to choose between The National on the Other Stage, and James Blake, who plays in the Woodsies tent.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

Harnessing Nordic melancholia to laugh at the misery of capitalist malaise, Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki makes movies about people who don’t say much but feel plenty.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

The show’s title, “Black Sun,” comes from the title of the philosopher Julia Kristeva’s 1987 volume on melancholia.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Still, settings like this had always been for other people, not me, and I fought back some ancient fear and melancholia.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz